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In the recent OU metagame of D/P, sleep inducers have become highly popular. Having one of your pokemon put to sleep can often signify your loss. According to competitive play clauses, you can put to sleep only 1 of your opponent's pokemon, though pokemon who slept themselves with the move Rest aren't taken into account.
A lot of teams find the move Sleep Talk to be the best way to counter sleep inducers. I decided to make this thread for people to suggest and draw useful movesets of potential sleep absorbers, thus making it easier to choose a sleep talker that will fit your team needs.
So, what do we know about sleep inducers? The most common sleep move is Hypnosis (70%), which can be learned by the following pokemon: Poliwrath, Politoad, Gengar, Hypno, Noctowl, Yanmega, Stantler, Gardevoir, Spinda, Lunatone, Purugly, Bronzong, Spiritomb, Ninetales, Crobat, Persian, Golduck, Rapidash, Mr.Mine, Milotic, Chimecho and Drifblim.
Then we have Sleep Powder (75%), learned by most grassers: Venusaur, Butterfree, Vileplume, Bellossom, Venomoth, Victreebel, Exeggutor, Tangrowth, Jumpluff, Roserade and Carnivine.
Lastly, the best sleep move, Spore (100%), which is learned by Smeargle, Parasect and the infamous Breloom.
Grasswhistle and Sing are also viable sleep moves, but aren't used much due to their low success rate (55%). Jynx gets a special mention for her Lovely Kiss (75%).
I allowed myself to color the pokemon you are more likely to see in the OU environment, so when choosing your sleep talker, don't forget to take them into consideration.
From this list, you will notice that most of the common pokemon who carry a sleep move are special oriented ones. Gengar, Yanmega and Roserade are extremely dangerous, for they can put their only counter to sleep and then continue with sweeping your entire team. Roserade may not look all that threatening, but trust me, with its moderately good speed, high special attack and great moveset, not many pokemon can switch in safely.. which brings me to Blissey, the best special defence wall in the game.
Barring Breloom, Poliwrath and other few physical sleepers, Blissey can switch in on everything, absorbing the sleep, or any hard hitting special attack in case a sleep move was yet to be used.
But what happens when your Blissey gets hypnotized? would you let her dream, risking another pokemon to come and start setting up on you.. or would you switch, awakening her with Natural Cure, only to get your new pokemon put to sleep by a non-predicted consecutive Hypnosis..?
Blissey knows Serene Grace too, remember? Serence Grace, that hax-ish ability excessively used by the dreaded Togekiss. Yeah. Blissey can use Serene Grace to her advantage with 20% freeze from Ice Beam, 20% burn from Flamethrower and 20% paralysis from Thunderbolt. Body Slam and Thunder are also valid alternatives for 60% paralysis. And this how restalk Blissey shines.
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Blissey (♀) @ Leftovers / Life Orb
Ability: Serene Grace
EVs: 148 HP/252 Def/108 SAtk
Calm nature (+SDef, -Atk)
- Thunderbolt / Thunder
- Ice Beam
- Rest
- Sleep Talk
Absorb any status, with better chances at statusing the opponent back. Life Orb Ice Beam will 1HKO any silly 4HP/0Sp.Def Garchomp who switches in. Personally, with all the sandstorm teams running around, Thunderbolt and Leftovers are the better options, but Thunder and Life Orb can work in a Rain Dance team. Flamethrower is also an option, but it can be used against you to defrost a pokemon who was earlier frozen by Ice Beam. Charge Beam will guarantee a Sp.Atk boost, but it will occasionally miss, something Blissey can't always afford. Shadow Ball is also nice for the 40% chance of lowering foe's Sp.Def one stage.
So yeah, this is it for now. Post here your creative restalkers for others to comment on.
A lot of teams find the move Sleep Talk to be the best way to counter sleep inducers. I decided to make this thread for people to suggest and draw useful movesets of potential sleep absorbers, thus making it easier to choose a sleep talker that will fit your team needs.
So, what do we know about sleep inducers? The most common sleep move is Hypnosis (70%), which can be learned by the following pokemon: Poliwrath, Politoad, Gengar, Hypno, Noctowl, Yanmega, Stantler, Gardevoir, Spinda, Lunatone, Purugly, Bronzong, Spiritomb, Ninetales, Crobat, Persian, Golduck, Rapidash, Mr.Mine, Milotic, Chimecho and Drifblim.
Then we have Sleep Powder (75%), learned by most grassers: Venusaur, Butterfree, Vileplume, Bellossom, Venomoth, Victreebel, Exeggutor, Tangrowth, Jumpluff, Roserade and Carnivine.
Lastly, the best sleep move, Spore (100%), which is learned by Smeargle, Parasect and the infamous Breloom.
Grasswhistle and Sing are also viable sleep moves, but aren't used much due to their low success rate (55%). Jynx gets a special mention for her Lovely Kiss (75%).
I allowed myself to color the pokemon you are more likely to see in the OU environment, so when choosing your sleep talker, don't forget to take them into consideration.
From this list, you will notice that most of the common pokemon who carry a sleep move are special oriented ones. Gengar, Yanmega and Roserade are extremely dangerous, for they can put their only counter to sleep and then continue with sweeping your entire team. Roserade may not look all that threatening, but trust me, with its moderately good speed, high special attack and great moveset, not many pokemon can switch in safely.. which brings me to Blissey, the best special defence wall in the game.
Barring Breloom, Poliwrath and other few physical sleepers, Blissey can switch in on everything, absorbing the sleep, or any hard hitting special attack in case a sleep move was yet to be used.
But what happens when your Blissey gets hypnotized? would you let her dream, risking another pokemon to come and start setting up on you.. or would you switch, awakening her with Natural Cure, only to get your new pokemon put to sleep by a non-predicted consecutive Hypnosis..?
Blissey knows Serene Grace too, remember? Serence Grace, that hax-ish ability excessively used by the dreaded Togekiss. Yeah. Blissey can use Serene Grace to her advantage with 20% freeze from Ice Beam, 20% burn from Flamethrower and 20% paralysis from Thunderbolt. Body Slam and Thunder are also valid alternatives for 60% paralysis. And this how restalk Blissey shines.
Blissey (♀) @ Leftovers / Life Orb
Ability: Serene Grace
EVs: 148 HP/252 Def/108 SAtk
Calm nature (+SDef, -Atk)
- Thunderbolt / Thunder
- Ice Beam
- Rest
- Sleep Talk
Absorb any status, with better chances at statusing the opponent back. Life Orb Ice Beam will 1HKO any silly 4HP/0Sp.Def Garchomp who switches in. Personally, with all the sandstorm teams running around, Thunderbolt and Leftovers are the better options, but Thunder and Life Orb can work in a Rain Dance team. Flamethrower is also an option, but it can be used against you to defrost a pokemon who was earlier frozen by Ice Beam. Charge Beam will guarantee a Sp.Atk boost, but it will occasionally miss, something Blissey can't always afford. Shadow Ball is also nice for the 40% chance of lowering foe's Sp.Def one stage.
So yeah, this is it for now. Post here your creative restalkers for others to comment on.
